This patient had a total of 2,041 grafts done over one session with Follicular Unit Excision (FUE) method using the ARTAS robotics.
The grafts were planted in the following areas:
Hairline, 400 grafts
Frontal Scalp, 400 grafts
Crown, 1241 grafts
Photos shown below are pre op, and 8 months post op.

This patient had a total of 2,113 grafts done over one session with Follicular Unit Strip method.
The grafts were planted in the following areas:
Hairline, 600 grafts
Frontal Scalp, 600 grafts
Mid Scalp, 413 grafts
Right Temple, 200 grafts
Left Temple, 200 grafts
Right and Left Parietal, 50 grafts each
Photos shown below are pre op, and 11 months post op.

This patient had a total of 1,815 grafts done over one session with Follicular Unit Strip method.
The grafts were planted in the following areas:
Hairline, 600 grafts
Frontal Scalp, 765 grafts
Right Temples, 225 grafts
Left Temple, 225 grafts
Photos shown below are pre op, and 9 months post op.

I am looking for a FUT ( STRIP METHOD) surgeon in california. Confused whom to choose between Dr Tom Rosanelli (http://www.rosanelli.com) OR Dr. Chao ( https://hairtransplantslosangeles.com/about/)
Please suggest me who is good or is there any other good surgeons in california ?
Thanks
Sunny

This patient had a session of 751 grafts with Follicular Unit Excision (FUE) using ARTAS robotics.
The grafts were placed in the following areas:
Hairline - 485 grafts
Right Temple - 125 grafts
Left Temple - 141 grafts
Photos shown below are pre op and 1 year post op.
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This patient had a total of 1,750 grafts done over one session with Follicular Unit Excision (FUE) method using the ARTAS robotics.
The grafts were planted in the following areas:
Hairline, 600 grafts
Frontal Scalp, 300 grafts
Mid Scalp, 400 grafts
Right Temples, 175 grafts
Left Temples, 175 grafts
Right Occipital, 100 grafts
The patient had Alopecia in the right occipital due to traumatic injury as a child.
Photos shown below are pre op, and 10 months post op.

It is simply a fact that FUT is still more popular than FUE...by far.
In the Tom Hanks movie Apollo 13 Jim Lovell's wife asks why her husband's flight to the moon was not being televised live. The answer that was offered was that NASA "made going to the moon seem like a trip to Pittsburgh ". The same goes for FUT.
The success and popularity of FUT has been so well established and proven over the past 20 years that it is taken for granted. There is no excitement in viewing the results of an FUT patient because we have already seen, literally, thousands of them online. Sure, there are variations from doctor to doctor, but by and large the results are predictably good.
FUE SEEMS like the "next step", but it has been around for 14 years and it's safe to say that it has failed to launch. What has happened is that the pool of wishful thinkers and uninformed patients has grown and there has been no shortage of clinics willing to service these patients. So the number of patients has grown and thus the number of results online. But if you compare the ratio of successful to unsuccessful procedures FUT wins hands down. And this is for predictable reasons.
FUE suffers from three detrimental forces that no doctor, clinic, or innovator has yet to overcome: Compression, Torsion, and Traction. You can add Skeletonization to that list as well. FUT does not suffer from these forces.
This illusion of popularity is sparked by the interest of a FEW posters on websites like this one. But it is the very nature of this interest that betrays the weakness of FUE. We are all captivated by the man who walks along a tightrope a hundred stories off the ground. "Will he fall?" Same thing with FUE, but in this case it's "will it grow?" And if it grows "will it be as good as strip"?
For all the distortion surrounding FUE one line has not been crossed, and that's the claim that FUE actually grows better than Strip surgery. Thankfully, that hasn't happened...yet. The best FUE can claim is that it grows AS WELL AS STRIP. So why not just get strip?! I'm in the business 20 years and that's what I did. You think I would pick an inferior procedure?
Vehement FUE supporters, all of them lay non-doctors, say that FUE has improved over the past 14 years. This is simply NOT TRUE. It is wishful thinking. Nothing about the procedure has changed except for the hype and the number of clinics offering it because patients engage in either wishful thinking or are simply uninformed.
NOT A SINGLE FUE DOCTOR HAS COME ONLINE ANYWHERE THAT HAS MADE A CLAIM THAT THEY USE NEW TECHNOLOGY. Only lay, non doctor, unaccountable FUE chest beaters who post anonymously have made this claim.
Recently a poster on here made such a claim and I offered to host a three way call between him, me, and the doctor he said made the claim- and then post the call online. He did not take me up on the offer. Instead he made a limp-wristed attack on me and then disappeared.
Nothing has changed in the world of FUE. A punch is used to score around a graft causing torsional damage. The graft is then grasped with a forceps causing compression damage, and then finally it is literally RIPPED out of the scalp causing traction damage.
Sure, there are new machines to assist in taking out the grafts, but they either cause more damage doing it, or they only mimic (poorly) what an experienced FUE practitioner can do. I won't even go into the ridiculous extra costs these "technologies" involve.
FUE has it's place, and in some cases it even has a place in megasessions. But I state without reserve that ANY time you see an FUE result, no matter how good or bad it looks, that same patient would have looked BETTER if he had a strip procedure. Furthermore his prospects for future surgery would be better and his donor area could be used more efficiently.
FUE is the "have your cake and eat it to" procedure. And in some cases this may be the case. Such as in the hands of very dedicated and very experienced physician practitioners who carefully screen their patients. However, just scanning this website's chat forums alone I have seen more negative postings from patients who actually underwent FUE than I do positive ones, and precious few posts that involve actual FUE results from patients themselves. What you really see are posts by enthusiastic hopeful patients right after FUE surgery but no actual results posted- even years later. What happened to these FUE patients? While the same thing does happen with FUT from time to time, FUT already enjoys thousands of online megasession before/after photos, whereas FUE hasn't even made it to more than a hundred to two hundred yet...and that's after 14 years!
If every doctor who performed a hair transplant surgery tomorrow were to check in on this forum and tell us what HT surgery they performed on that particular day you would find 99.9% would be FUT, not FUE. But you would not know that by reading forums because FUT is old news and unexciting. How many before/after pictures of a 2500 graft case can you look at before you become bored? And it is this very reality that demonstrates the reliability and strength of this procedure.
FUE has it's place, but NOT first place, and it never will.
Dr. Alan Feller

Hey Bill,
Thanks for the response. Yes I saw that Rosanelli is recommended by your site. Is there any reason why Dr. Chao ( https://hairtransplantslosangeles.com/about/) is not recommended by this site ? I can see that he have all 5 star rating in yelp and google reviews but Dr rosanelli don't have 5 star reviews. So I am little confused about choosing the doctor.
Please let me know if you have any opinions/suggestions about Dr Chao too. Thanks

Sunny,
Dr. Rosanelli is recommended by this community. I suggest consulting with him to see what he says about your case. To see who else we recommend, visit https://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com/Consult-a-Physician/surgeon-list.asp?StateAbr=CA.
Best wishes,
Bill

This woman had a total of 1,275 grafts done over one session with Follicular Unit Strip method.
The grafts were planted in the following areas:
Right Temple, 700 grafts
Left Temple, 575 grafts
Photos shown below are pre op, and 17 months post op.

Why not go with Dr. Nader in Mexico?
I can't find one bad review but I personally spoke with a very satisfied customer who has recommended his friends to Nader, as well.
All were very satisfied.
Dr. Nader does EVERYTHING himself.
$2.50 per graft. Only does manual FUE!
Check out "YouTube: Tom Forrester."

This patient had Alopecia Areata in this area. Prior to surgery, he had a biopsy to confirm the diagnosis that the area was “burned out”.
The grafts were planted in the following area:
Right inferior temples, 310 grafts
Photos shown below are pre op, and 8 months post op.

Hey all, first time poster here.
Ive always bounced around on this website looking for the best results and price for a FUE transplant. One video on YouTube always caught my attention, Tom Forester, who had his done by Nader.
Just a few questions: why isnt his name ever brought up?
Have you had him work on you? How did it turn out?
Is he as legit as the few people I’ve seen him work on?
If anyone has more info it would be much appreciated. Currently I’m 26, with a Norwood 3 or 4 receding hairline.
Thanks

This patient was satisfied with his first session of 2,477 grafts.
The grafts were planted in the following areas:
Hairline, 600 grafts
Frontal Scalp, 777 grafts
Mid Scalp, 600 grafts
Right Temple, 150 grafts
Left Temple, 150 grafts
Right Parietal, 100 grafts
Left Parietal, 100 grafts
Photos shown below are pre op, 1 year post op, and a well healed donor area.

This patient was satisfied with his first session of 1,890 grafts.
The grafts were planted in the following areas:
Frontal Scalp, 400 grafts
Crown, 1490 grafts
Photos shown below are pre op, and 9 months post op.

This patient was satisfied with his first session of 1,939 grafts, and preferred not to exceed 2000 grafts.
The grafts were planted in the following areas:
Hairline, 600 grafts
Frontal scalp, 550 grafts
Mid Scalp, 439 grafts
Right Temple, 175 grafts
Left temple, 175 grafts
Photos shown below are pre op, and 7 months post op.

Ugh, this sucks.....I feel for you, baldlivesmatter.
Also, sorry but not sorry.....I think this whole "the doctor will make it right" excuse I hear from time to time on poor results is a cop-out. It's one thing to hear that from a surgeon who did surgery and you had a 95% great result but maybe there was a small little touch-up needed. Surgeon says "I will make it right." That's a good surgeon. Little touchups happen are are normal. "Hey, I ordered a burger without onions and it has onions on it." "Oh, no problem, we will make you another burger without onions."
However, hearing that line from a surgeon who produced an overall POOR result.....it means nothing. Why would you ever consider going back to someone who demonstrated they didn't the surgery as a whole very well? "Hey, come back to my restaurant....I know you had food poisoning for a week after and almost died but I promise our food will be better this time". Yeah, OK.
Like some have said.....1700 is a small amount of your donor (and you look to have a nice caliber of hair) so at least you didn't waste many grafts and luckily you didn't get FUT and have a scar and a poor result. Christ, call Dr. Konior or one of other 3-4 top-notch surgeons tomorrow and be sure of your result this time. STOP CUTTING CORNERS PEOPLE! You not only waste your time and money but your donor when you pick people B-list surgeons. It's 2018, do you want Tom Cruise in your movie or do you want Jean Claude Van Damme?
I realize you said you researched several surgeons and went with the one you went with. However, I'm not sure what factors you based this on to make you pick him out of the others you could have went to. I'm not saying Harris is horrible....you said a friend of your's went to him and it looked good. However, this is what separates the A list from the B list. The A listers might have 1 bad result a year (likely due to patient physiology).....the B listers are going to have significantly more. How lucky are you feeling to test the odds?

Guys, today I had my FUE procedure with Dr. Paul Shapiro. It is 2AM here in Minneapolis. Just woke from heavy dose of Valium and Vicodin.
Tom said - One of easiest cases he has worked on (coarse thick straight hair). He extracted approx. 1200 grafts within a very short period using SAFE.
Dr. Paul said - One of the difficult cases as I would just not go numb. He was extremely patient and kind.
Matt - Great guy, his confidence in SMG gave me confidence.
Jenna - Very particular about details and a sweet personality to deal with.
SMG staff was very kind and helpful.
It seemed to me Vicodin made very nauseous, threw up 4 times after the procedure. Hope the grafts did not get dislodged/fall out.
Tomorrow I will be going for the hair wash at SMG and after I am back I will update the thread with more details.
Many thanks to this forum and members of this forum for helping me all the way.
Like I said I will add more details tomorrow.